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Leah Chase : listen, I say like this / by Carol Allen.
Van Pelt Library F379.N553 C43 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allen, Carol, 1945-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chase, Leah.
- African American women--Louisiana--New Orleans--Biography.
- African American women.
- African Americans--Louisiana--New Orleans--Biography.
- African Americans.
- African American cooks--Louisiana--New Orleans--Biography.
- African American cooks.
- Dooky Chase (Restaurant).
- Civic leaders--Louisiana--New Orleans--Biography.
- Civic leaders.
- Art patrons--United States--Biography.
- Art patrons.
- United States.
- Louisiana--New Orleans.
- New Orleans (La.)--Biography.
- New Orleans (La.).
- Madisonville (La.)--Biography.
- Madisonville (La.).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 189 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Gretna, La. : Pelican Publishing Company, 2002.
- Summary:
- Leah Chase thinks she's like everybody else. She's not. She doesn't think the things she does are out of the ordinary. They are. She is an ordinary person who has struggled quietly and persistently for years, believing in herself and her fellow human beings, with faith that she can improve her world. The story of Leah Chase is the story of a black Creole girl raised in Madisonville, Louisiana, who defied the accepted conventions for women at the time and grew into a woman to be reckoned with. In her roles at the helm of the Dooky Chase Restaurant (one of the most famous Creole restaurants in the country), as a nationally respected patron of the arts, and as a community and civic leader, she has grown to the level of folk hero in both the black and white communities of New Orleans. Leah Chase is a living legend far beyond the boundaries of the city. Leah Chase is a woman who speaks her mind. Her tremendous personal strength and deep religious faith have carried her through the sudden loss of her daughter, a bombing during the Civil Rights era, and boycotts, and have helped keep the peace in her marriage. Told in part in her own words, and through the reflections of others, Leah Chase: Listen, I Say Like This shares the events that have shaped the life of this woman and how she has, in turn, shaped the life of her community. Reading her story inspires one to think, "If she can do it, maybe I can too."
- Contents:
- Madisonville
- Moving On
- Love and Sacrifice
- You Do What You Have to Do
- Kitchen Ambassador
- Just Feeding Our Clients
- I Just Pray and Keep Going
- Art Smoothes the Edges
- Forty Ducks and Dutch
- A Bunch of Cayoudles
- The Next Generation
- List, I Say Like This
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- "Recipes from 'The Dooky Chase Cookbook,' published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc."--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-181) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 1589800486
- OCLC:
- 50149497
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